Imagination is a Strange Thing

Sometimes, I imagine characters interacting with worlds and situations that they really have no business being. A post-apocalyptic protagonist wondering how there are so many different brands of one product in the same present-day store, a side character from a Pokemon fic using a reality-bending attack against a wannabe acolyte of darkness, the cast of a dead fic exploring a completed fic even though their original story wasn't done yet... stuff like that.

And the only reason I haven't written all of these ideas into a submitted story is because I know I could never answer all of the potential questions to a satisfactory level. Fiction needs to have just enough sense that its unrealistic elements can be waved off as perfectly reasonable, given the circumstances.

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